Word: prevents
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese, said he, had twin aims: political propaganda in India; the capture of favorable positions for attack on the Assam-Bengal railway - chief supply line for China as well as the India and Burma battlefronts. The Allied countermove is first to locate and pin down the Japs, prevent them from gaining full use of roads, squeeze their supplies. Secondly, the British would attack and destroy the enemy - an operation which would take several weeks...
...prevent this dangerous self-dosing, 18 U.S. states and the Pure Food & Drug Administration have rules against sulfa sales without prescriptions. But bootleg sulfa is fairly easy to get. Chief customers: people with gonorrhea...
...prevent kidney complications from sulfa, doctors give alkali along with the drug, carefully watch kidney output...
From time to time live lice in a linen bag were dipped into the tin: if they lived, logs were added to the fire. Later, bread ovens and even rooms, heated from outside, were used for the same purpose. To prevent clothes from catching fire, paper slips were used as indicators: if they toasted black the temperature was too high; if yellow, just right...
Nothing has been able to prevent green-sick girls from swooning over Frank Sinatra. Aping their shameless sisters, mewling boys have begun to give the same treatment to Sinatra's partner on the Lucky Strike Hit Parade (CBS, 9 p.m., Sat., E.W.T.). It has been the best break that auburn-haired, delectable, showbusinesslike Joan Edwards ever...